If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
ALAN WATTSYou do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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